Vagani Car Manufacturers- Get Inspired- Final Challenge

[Spartwo]

I think you would need to be more specific on the details...

How fast it goes before tipping/flipping over in a straight line on the runway, a straight line not on the runway, or a turn?

How much damage it can withstand after a crash into the VAB or a shot from a missile launcher?

If there is gonna be a challenge that is something like the latter, we would probably lose a point per part that is lost from the original part count, Top Gear style.

If it's done Topgear style then the price tag has to play some part.

[KotDemopan]

If it's done Topgear style then the price tag has to play some part.

Well, then the budget better be 220k or more because i spammed RTGs on my vehicle.

[mrmcp1]

Here is my attempt at the first challenge.

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Please no more challenges involving landing the rover on another planet or moon as I found it quite difficult to balance the center of thrust and center of mass.

Top Gear style challenges would be fun.

Hope my attempt was ok.

[War Eagle 1]

Please no more challenges involving landing the rover on another planet or moon as I found it quite difficult to balance the center of thrust and center of mass.

Have you considered a sky crane method? For the most part it works with me

[mrmcp1]

Have you considered a sky crane method? For the most part it works with me

Thanks for the idea but I think it could only help with the landing which was the easy bit. The main rocket was out of balance.

[MissionController3134]

After much difficulty (and many kraken attacks), the F1 Dragster is on the surface of Minmus. I had to take two cars to balance out the craft.

Imgur link: http://imgur.com/a/Mvq9X

[KotDemopan]

Please no more challenges involving landing the rover on another planet or moon as I found it quite difficult to balance the center of thrust and center of mass.

To be honest, the fact my vehicle had the center on mass, literally, on center was just a convinience for me.

Also, has anyone seen that giant tank around on Minmus lately?

[Spartwo]

We put these on our first post right?

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EDIT:Spoilers as images don't work:(

[Vagani]

Id prefer if they were new posts as then i dont have to dig through the thread and towards the end i know where abouts they are

Edit: added names

Edited September 21, 2014 by Vagani

[MissionController3134]

Is the second challenge coming today?

Edited September 21, 2014 by MissionController3134

[Vagani]

no tommorow

[MissionController3134]

Ok I will have to look tomorrow

[aesthetics]

A new challenges comes out tomorrow, make sure you have finished the previous one or upcoming events may not be achievable, and make sure you dont fall behind, we dont want that now do we, so far we have had the first challenge completed by:

Kot

Manni01

Spartwo

mrmcp1

missioncontroller3134

If I have missed you please shout at me so I can edit this post.

Another point, can Aesthetics please post the crafts specs, so that I can include them if you win, as always have fun and dont give up

will do, posted!

[Heagar]

Sorry Vagani. I had completed the first challenge. But after the recent update for firefox i'm unable even to log in on their site.

So i have to wait until they have fixed their java code. Or have to search for an other free image hoster in the web.

Imgur worked today, thats fine. look at my post.

Edited September 22, 2014 by Heagar

[Vagani]

Now the second challenge is... (drum roll please)

Id like to see your rovers performance on minmus, please take a screenshot of the highest speed, a picture of you getting air and a beautiful picture of the car and a kerbal by its side with something in the background, be it a rocket, the sun, kerbin, etc.

Fire away

[MissionController3134]

Fire away

Haha rocket PUNS!! I think puns are the best jokes even though no one else does.

[MissionController3134]

Here is my second challenge completion:

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[BagelRabbit]

Dang. I've missed out so far because of the incredible* video that I was making for MAVEN's orbital insertion burn.

*incredible-ness not guaranteed

What Really Happened To MAVEN!

Anyway, now that it's out of my system, I'm probably going to post a video tomorrow about the Pillbug's epic journey to Minmus, and the various stunts and tricks that can be done there.

[KotDemopan]

Alright, 2nd challenge done.

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By the way, can we have the 3rd or after-3rd challenge be about making a commericial for your car?

Cause i already made my entry right here:

[Vagani]

Added names and challenge categories to my so far post, if i have missed you post a post, so i can add you

[Heagar]

@ Vagani:

In your OP you stated as a rule, that everyone have to submit his challenge parts in their own OP.

So please check mine. Otherwise i will delete it to free space on imgur.

[Vagani]

@ Vagani:

In your OP you stated as a rule, that everyone have to submit his challenge parts in their own OP.

So please check mine. Otherwise i will delete it to free space on imgur.

Yeah just realised that, thanks for the second challenge, i just wanted to have people post a comment so that i know when it is done, so i dont have to trawl though pages and pages of posts

[manni01]

Ok I finished the second challenge. I did have to send my craft to minimus again because I deleted it because I thought that there would be a challenge on Kerbin. Anyways, My max speed was something around 22 m/s (the flats to make it easy to accelerate, so I could have just waited until it went so fast that the tires popped, because there was a constant .1 m/s²). The handling is very weird because the weight applied wheels is so low, that its basically always out of traction (the suspension I built on it is probably a bit overkill). I have a decent jump, although it was rather me falling down a deep incline rather than an actual jump and idk what to say about the epid shot (I hope it get extra points for kerbol, mun, and kerbin)

[aesthetics]

Did the first challenge, working on the second!

Top Speed before the tires popped! (working on picking where to jump!)

[Heagar]

@Vagani

I can understand that you are not wiling to search every time the entire posts if there is a change but:

If you don't want to browse through every entrance, you can build up links for the OP's.

You can search for "name" or "viewfull" in the source code (HTML in your browser) until the post number in this thread (in my case 55) is displayed, a line like this:

<a name="post1401727" href="threads/92701-Vagani-Car-Manufacturers-Get-Inspired-The-Challenges-Have-Begun?p=1401727&viewfull=1#post1401727" class="postcounter">#55</a><a id="postcount1401727" name="55"></a>

Then put together follwing lines (replace x in httx with p):

- httx://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/

- threads/92701-Vagani-Car-Manufacturers-Get-Inspired-The-Challenges-Have-Begun?p=1401727&viewfull=1#post1401727

The result is (replace x in httx with p):

- httx://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/92701-Vagani-Car-Manufacturers-Get-Inspired-The-Challenges-Have-Begun?p=1401727&viewfull=1#post1401727

In this case a perfect link to my OP (preferably in your own OP) and - if you provide it - to other entrys in the challenge. Maybe with remarks like CH (Challenge) 1 or 2 done.

It's "work" that you have to do to find this entrys. But once you have done that, it would minimise your effords to overwatch the contest. Insist of doing entrys in the OP's!

And that would be an feature where not contenders could easyly watch out for interesting submissons too.

Edited September 24, 2014 by Heagar